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Vocab Builder: Joyce’s Ulysses

by Erin Brenner on November 17, 2010

I found a wonderful new podcast recently: re: Joyce. Literary author Frank Delaney is deconstructing James Joyce’s Ulysses, word by word. Delaney reads a bit of the text and then unlocks all manner of literary references. It’s delicious. This week, some of the vocabulary from the first few pages of Ulysses and the podcast.

Vulgar: crude; of the common peopleMartello tower: short, round tower made of stone and located near the shoreTonsure: to shave the head of a monk or priestKinch: slip-knot; in old Irish slang, the child of a convict or trampCorpuscle: an unattached body cell

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